Großstadtrevier
Großstadtrevier is a German television series, broadcast on Germany's Das Erste of the ARD. First aired on 16 December 1986, the show is one of the most popular television series in the country. It follows the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
Synopsis
The series depicts everyday police work in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli and the neighborhood, focusing on the officers of the fictional 14th Police Station/PK14. The plot essentially consists of three sub-areas.First, there is the area of everyday police work, dealing primarily with minor offenses such as theft, neighborhood disputes, traffic offenses, and family disputes. Here, the often unbureaucratic and interpersonal assistance provided by officers, especially when it comes to elderly citizens, children, and the homeless, is presented as an almost natural part of the job.
Furthermore, there is the area around the neighborhood and Reeperbahn, where the officers primarily deal with prostitution, human trafficking, drugs, and violence, but also address the concerns of the people who live and work there. Real locations such as the drag cabaret Pulverfass and the boxing bar Zur Ritze were also used for this. Dirk Matthies's numerous contacts in the neighborhood often prove helpful when working on the Reeperbahn.
The third section focuses on the private lives of the police officers of PK14 and their interactions at work, true to the motto "One for all, all for one." The cohesion and familial relationship between the officers are particularly emphasized here; this is evident in shared trips to the countryside and after-work beers at their local pub, Big Harry. The officers' private activities, which occasionally also become official business, are also frequently featured in the series.
Major crimes such as murder, hostage-taking, and robbery are also occasionally addressed.
Filming Locations
Since Season 33, the interior shots and the entrance of the Commissariat have been filmed in Studio Hamburg Atelier 3 in the Hamburg district of Tonndorf. The outdoor recordings take place in front of the archway Elsässer Straße 20/22 in Dulsberg.Previously, the district was located in a building in Mendelssohnstraße/Eck Paul-Dessau-Straße, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The red brick building, in which the offices of Studio Hamburg Produktion GmbH are located outside the shooting times. was used for both indoor and outdoor shots.
In Episodes 1 to 28, the then-real police station 12, Klingberg 1 in 20095 Hamburg was used for the outdoor recordings. The sign with the inscription "Police station 12" was glued accordingly.
Other recurring main shooting locations are the Reeperbahn, Sankt Michaelis, the Sankt-Josefs-Kirche in St. Pauli and the St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken. Some episodes take place outside of Hamburg, so the 300. Episode in Bad Segeberg in the scenes of the Freilichttheater am Kalkberg, where the Karl May Games usually take place and was designed as a Western. In addition, three episodes were shot on Gut Rundhof in the Gasthof Weißer Hirsch. The episode Fährmann hol'röver was filmed on the North Sea island Neuwerk, which belongs to the Hamburg-Mitte district.
Another special shooting location was a former firefighting boat called Repsold, which is used for excursion trips on the Lower and Upper Elbe. In the metropolitan area, the Repsold served Dirk Matthies as a houseboat for eight years.